Spirit Week

Every year around the third week of September we have Spirit Week.  We pick four themes and have the students and teachers dress up.  On Friday we play volleyball and football games and we play teachers/alumni against students and we end the week off with some hotdogs and chips.  It is a great week and we always have great participation!  This year we had Super Hero Day, Duct Tape day, Famous Person Day and we always have Army Day on Friday.

Famous Person Day

Power Ranger outfit- Made entirely out of Duct Tape

Luigi and Me (Mario)

Duct Tape Dress

Fall Fine Motor Worksheet

Check out my Fall Fine Motor Worksheets.  There are 18 different fine motor worksheets in the packet.  You can print them out and use them as worksheets or you can laminate and use with a dry erase marker in a learning center. 

Check it out at my TPT store:  FALL FINE MOTOR
Normal price is $2.00, but from now until Wednesday (October 9th), you can get it for only $1.80.  Also the first 3 people to comment below, I will email them a free copy!

New Classroom Pictures!

  

First Grade Assignment list and Word Wall

 Writing and Art Center under the Word Wall

 Mailbox and Writing Center

 Mailbox- I am hoping that this will help my students in the letter writing process.

 Kindergarten Tables- I have 10 kindergarten students.

 View from Kindergarten Door-  I love my Smart Board!

First Grade tables and view of Kindergarten Side of the room.

More Pictures Coming Soon!

How's your classroom coming?

Write the Room

Now that my classroom is bigger (TWO TIMES BIGGER!!) I am excited to try out more learning centers.
Last year my room was so cramped, that there wasn't a lot of room to move around. But, this year, my classroom is a great size for 19 students! One of the learning centers that I am the most excited about adding is WRITE THE ROOM. I bought cute little clipboards at Walmart the other day that will hang just right on my hooks. I will have the students use the clipboards and worksheets (that you can download for FREE by clicking on the picture) to walk around the room and write down words that are interesting to them. I have on display all of their classmates names, a word wall, and some environmental print posters that will work great for this activity.
Have you ever tried this learning center before? Let me know how it has worked for you!

Froggy Goes to Camp And Froggy Learns to Swim

Since my classroom has a frog-theme and since the Froggy books are some of my favorite books, I am working on some reader response worksheets and some comprehension worksheets for my students.  You can click on the pictures to get your free copies:

Hope you enjoy!

Apple Tree Dice Roll Game

So, I found these cute erasers last summer and I've wanted to make a game to use them in ever since.

So, here is the game that I came up with:

It's a roll the dice and cover the correct number game.  It will be perfect for the beginning of school.  For my kindergarten students, the apples only go up to 6 so they can practice dot patterns and number recognition.  For my first grade students, I made trees that have apples that go up to 12, so that they can use 2 dice to practice addition skills along with dot patterns and number recognition.
I can't wait to see it in action!
You can download 12 apple tree cards at my TPT shop here for just $1. 

More Letters

C is for Cookie

T is for Turtle

S is for Seeds

 Q is for Quilt